WHEN THE WANDERER FORUM FOUNDATION was founded in 1965 by Stillwell J. Conner, Laurene Conner, and Alphonse Matt, Sr., they envisioned it as an organization that would support the religious and moral education of Catholic laity according to the norms promulgated by Vatican II. Given the intense confusion created by the "spirit of the Council" and promoted by progressivists in the Catholic press and in the Church, this was no small goal. The United States was inundated with waves of "modernism" spearheaded by men like Hans Kung and Edward Schillebeeckx. To support its work, the Foundation developed national and regional Forums, keyed to the teaching authority of the Church and to bring inspiring, orthodox speakers into the light. Supported by Cardinals O'Boyle and Carberry, Archbishop Dwyer and Bishops Fletcher and Sullivan, the Foundation's early years were exciting and stimulating. The work of the Foundation spread. Contacts in Europe permitted the interchange of materials. In France, the Foundation worked with Marcel Clement and M. De Lassus; in Rome, Fr. Gliozzi, S.J.; and Frank McMillan and Hamish Fraser in Scotland. Most of these men addressed one or more of the early Forums. Through them, the Wanderer Forum Foundation developed detailed dossiers on international organizations emerging after Vatican II to unsettle the Church. One such organization was the IDOC -- the Information Documentation on the Conciliar (later this became "Contemporary") Church. This network of journalists and religious educators labored from Rome to produce a modernist "spin" to news coming out of the Vatican and became a leading mouthpiece for liberationist propaganda. The Wanderer newspaper gave the only detailed report on this group, whose shadow fell over Europe, Latin and North America. It published Marcel Clement 's report from Paris, translated by Frank McMillan in Scotland. The Wanderer Forum Foundation accompanied this reportage with detailed reports of its own on IDOC groups working in the Americas. [See the November 1990 Forum Quarterly "An Unholy Alliance"] The work of the Foundation has flourished over the years, most visibly through its national and regional conferences and publications. For several years, the Foundation's quarterly documentation series evaluated the radical and influential networks operation to undermine the central mission of the Catholic Church. Most recently the WFF added Focus on Faith Retreats to address the spiritual starvation so evident in America today. Today, as in past years, the Foundation has an important function to perform, one that the years have not made any easier as progressivist trends become more deeply entrenched in the "American" Church. This task, following the guidance of Pope John Paul II, is to continue the "doctrinal formation" that will fortify and strengthen the Catholic "reason for our hope," with fidelity to Sacred Scripture, Tradition and the Magisterium. In an address given at Santo Domingo on the occasion of the Conference of Latin American Catholic Bishops (CELAM) in October 1991, the Holy Father commented that the "hour of grace is also an hour of great responsibility." The Wanderer Forum Foundation very much takes this exhortation to heart. Christ's lay faithful have been blessed with so much. Those blessings come with a call to work for the Kingdom of God. This is the effort of the Wanderer Forum Foundation.